Well clearly i don't appreciate my time enough, with me being here, writing this, but the same goes for you reading this waste of time, aren't we quite the unoccupied fellows? Procrastination sure is something....
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Yeah, reading his stuff is the equivalent of hearing the ramblings of an eldritch god, who's knkwledge is enough to tear ones mind to shambles.
The good news is that psychiatric institutions have come a long ways since the days when they strapped you at a bed in order to keep you in control.
The bad news is... joking there are no bad news, it is a great deal, crossing the line of mental health that is.
... you know, whenever I'm b9red, I'll just start reading this entire thread of comments.
Procrastination at its finest.
Doomroar: " @Nietzlawe listan man, we have an audience now, no more slacking, it is time to continue Simon's integration into A Midget Called Tom's (Ron) plans."
Nietzlawe: "But what about Tobias and..."
Doomroar: "They got cancer and die, they never get to bang each other, the end."
Nietzlawe: "And what about my therapy sessions!"
Doomroar: "I need you insane in the membrane for this, plus you always skip the sessions anyway!"
Hate to asm you directly but, mind reviewing a sketch I did?
Consider it done.
A satellite would kill them right when it got to the good part, oh well I guess, atleast they bothed died, one going down in glory... unless it was the satellite they had in Night of the living Dead, so, eh, but I won't involve myself in y'alls... random arrangement of letters.
No, no, they died by truck to the face syndrome.
Hmm, still a better romance than twilight. [I know, totally original joke]
Better love story than twilight.
Better plot than the Matrix 3.
Better twists than inception.
Well, Darksouls III is coming, guess I better start doing fan art. Let the rolling, and straifing simulator begin!
And it is out.
Darksouls ain't out where I live.
I see so you are not desperate enough to get the Japanese version.
I don't got the money, nor do I speak Japanese.
Seems like you will have to compensate by watching lets play videos.
I've been actively avoiding lets plays, they all suck, and I don't want spoilers.
Haha
May I ask of you to review a sketch I did?. ^^
Such impudence, asking me to go and make a review the nerve of some people!
Fine i will do it.
Well, if not too much trouble, I have another sketch I'd like you to review.
I actually have nothing to say about that one.
I guess that other than the hips and the weapon she doesn't reminds me of the amazon from Dragon Crown, at all, which doesn't means much since her main features are now hidden seeing as she is no longer half naked.
That is who I used for reference, I decided she needed clothes, because I don't like good things such as half nakedness.
You masochist.
It's not my fault I'm a talentless hack who deserves only the worst, oh wait, it's alll my fault, man I'm pathetic :|
Well it was a good drawing but since i don't know what was your friend asking or what your aim was there's no real way to say anything of sustenance out of it.
With that said, yes the lack of input about the circumstances of the drawing is entirely your fault.
Fair enough, so, my friend asked, " Hey, I need a machi woman for an roleplay I'm doing." So Inresponded, " Oh okay, look up the amazon from Dragon's Crown." My friend came back, " It's beautiful, you are going to die for how perfect it is, but I want you to draw it first." So I'm like, " Yes, fantastic." So I decided, since I don't wanna just draw another Amazon, and I love practical, yet rough armour, I better combine the two, and show of that body. So, that was the whole scheme behind it, I destroyed the appeal of the original Amazon, and added what I find appealing, and my friend loved it. God can I or can't I describe a simple explanation.
Well done, it seems like you accomplished what you set out to do, the armor seems sturdy yet light enough on the right places to allow movement, the back pouch to carry items is a nice detail.
If anything i guess the shield is too small, and the weapon being practically out of the picture take away from the impact that the image could give, specially since the head of the... spear? scythe? axe? polearm? poleaxe? glaive? polehammer? i think it is a polehammer, looks like one to me, anyway, it could be in the picture, making her stand atop a rock, or a pile of enemies would allow you to keep the pose, put the weapon in-frame, and add a background to it.
Oh and congratulations on the shading, it is giving a great texture and depth feel to the drawing, you can actually see the roundness on her legs, hip, arms, etc.
Other than that, well you will have to ink and finish it.
Huh, a truck filled with honey sounds amazing right now. I've been sketching 'til my hands bleed, think I'm finally gettings better with faces.
Dats lit.
Hmm, so, let me ask. What are some Anime artist I should, ahem, study, fkr art purposes, becaus3 frankly I don't know where to look besides the guy who made Berserk, and Ayami Kojima.
Anime? but neither Kentaro Miura nor Ayami Kojima are animators, one is a mangaka (comic artist), and the other is an illustrator...
I meant manga, sorry, my head isn't working right now.*grabs the cat of nine tails for self punishment*
Ok, and i assume you want to learn to draw in what style? or better put, for what purposes? what comes next is a list of incomplete recommendations, that start with what is universally accepted and then devolves onto my personal bias and taste, and since you are not specific here is a wall of text that can be perfectly useless to you, on top of that i am working from memory so a lot of people is left aside. For example:
- Historically speaking when it comes to calling someone a god of manga, Osamu Tezuka is the only one that gets to claim the tittle, but his style is not really good for erotic works, although he does has a couple of them and they are actually decent.
- For other people that came after the second generation disciples of Tezuka where their inspiration, Go Nagai championed various genres orientated to a more older teenagey audience, visually he was quite crude, never steeping away from nudity and gore, in the narrative department i think he could have paid more attention to his master, in that sense Ishikawa Ken does way better, which is the reason why i am more of a Getter Robo fan than a Mazinger Z fan, similarly i like Cyborg 009 more than Devilman.
- Then we have what could be considered something like a void, because people start coming with their own styles, in here we can put a bunch of people, all of them with their particulars, but as far as influencing others go Katsuhiro Otomo has to be the one that got it, in this period of time animation was advancing and innovating, things were moving and in color, and yet Otomo managed to merged the 2 mediums in perfect harmony, angles, shading, pacing, panel organization, narrative, it had it all.
- From this point we have the previous generation to our contemporaries and our contemporaries, in here we have people like Kentaro Miura, or Akira Toriyama (actually he should be in the previous one, but hell, Otomo is Otomo), Takehiko Inoue (I recommend you this one a lot if you want to learn how to draw people, and hair, putting aside paneling, narrative, effects, etc), Hiroaki Samura (also recommend him, specially taking into account the style you already have), Takayuki Yamaguchi, Yoshihiro Togashi, Tsutomu Nihei, Sui Ishida (These 2 Nihei and Ishida, are quite famous, but their drawings more often than not have a tendency to be not that detailed, rather they end sketchy and messy, which is their style and works, but is not really something that helps if you want to lear), Suehiro Maruo, Usamaru Furuya, Daisuke Igarashi, Inio Asano, Kenji Tsuruta, Naoki Urasawa, Kengo Hanazawa, Taiyō Matsumoto, Eiichiro Oda (to get an idea of how messy this section is, Oda was inspired by Toriyama, and a lot of the people in this list worked as assistants for other people in this same list).
Ok finally you may say:
"woa! that's a lot of people, but in the end only 3 or 4 serve my purposes, i need something like Kaoru Mori, who draws beautiful charming, sexy yet not really vulgar characters, that are entrancing, and come with equally captivating landscapes!"
Well listen here mister, i am no manga scholar, i know some things, and most of them derive from things that i like, and from things that the hype of the year has made me read, or so to speak, it was there so i read it but otherwise i would have ignored it.
In other words i am not Hox, nor i am Paul Gravett, thus i know nothing of the panorama at large, i have no idea of Shoujo, Josei, and hentai genres, because i don't care about those, and yet they are probably exactly what you need, i am a Kazuo Umezu, Arai Hideki, Hoshino Yukinobu, Taiyo Matsumoto, Iwaaki Hitoshi fan, those people are great, Umezu himself is a legend he is the Tezuka of horror manga, yes Junji Ito pays his respects to him! but they may not be the rigth people you want to copy when it comes to drawing, they are the perfect people you want to copy when it comes to making a great story tho.
Looking at them, and let me say, you are great help.
Well glad it helped.
So, let me ask you, since this has been boggling my head. In a fantasy tabletop rpg, how could you make a monster a payable character?.
P.s I got some new paper, and pens.
You just do, first you have to nerf its stats so they can be equal to that to humanoid characters, then you have to balance its abilities so they wont break the game, and finally you limit its size so it can have access to the same places as the other characters, in a tabletop rpg everyone shares the same world, and under the looks they all have in essence the same character limited to the narrative of the dungeon master.
So deep down a monsters just ends being a non humanoid character with some quirks that make it fun to play here and there. The reason why it is boring is because humanoids set the limitations of what can be possible for playable characters, and humanoids are boring themselves.
Congratulations on the paper and pens.
themightyCaolf
I'm reading a post now, I can feel my sanity draining as I read.
Doomroar
Hope it is one of the good old unstructured-continuous-trains-of-thoughts-walls-of-text of his, the ones that make you hallucinate and see figures and patterns between the letters thanks to the lack of separate paragraphs.